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Yearly Archives: 2016

GCF approves $315m in funding at final 2016 meeting

The first Green Climate Fund (GCF) Board meeting to be held in the Pacific, and the final for 2016 closed in Apia, Samoa, on...

WBCSD, WMB welcome approvals on climate-related financial disclosures

The pair of World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and the We Mean Business Coalition (WMB) has welcomed the FSB Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure’s (TCFD)...

Petroleum technologists honour Shell boss

The Petroleum Technology Association (PETAN), an association of indigenous technical oilfield service companies in the upstream and downstream sectors, honoured the Shell Petroleum Development...

Global community in $75bn commitment to end poverty

A coalition of more than 60 donor and borrower governments agreed in Yogyakarta, Indonesia on Thursday, December 15, 2016 to ratchet up the fight...

Amina Mohammed, Nigeria’s Environment Minister, is UN Deputy Secretary-General

Incoming United Nations Secretary-General, António Guterres, on Thursday announced Ms Amina Mohammed as his Deputy Secretary-General. Guterres made the announcement through the spokesman of the...

Lagosians regret absence of the unique Christmas weather in the state

Christmas weather December, aside being the end of the year based on the Gregorian calendar, is unique in many ways. One of the unique things...

CODE’s ‘Follow The Money’ celebrated

Nominet Trust, the UK’s leading tech for good funder, has named Connected Development’s (CODE) Follow The Money initiative in the 2016 NT100 – a...

CBD, WWF champion biodiversity awareness

The Secretariat of the Convention on Biodiversity (SCBD) and WWF International have signed an MoU to collaborate in implementing CBD’s Global Communications Strategy together...

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World Wildlife Crime Report 2024 documents illegal trade in 162 countries, territories

The World Wildlife Crime Report 2024 was launched on Monday, May 13, 2024, by the United Nations Office on...
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Tinubu establishes, chairs committee on green economy, lists objectives

President Bola Tinubu has established a committee to oversee Green Economic Initiative, being a strategic move to ensure advancement...

Progress made in negotiations on amendments to International Health Regulations

In what looks like an historic milestone for global public health, State Parties on Saturday, May 18, 2024, agreed...

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World Wildlife Crime Report 2024 documents illegal trade in 162 countries, territories

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Tinubu establishes, chairs committee on green economy, lists objectives

President Bola Tinubu has established a committee to oversee...
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